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This reception room was located at the front of the house on the
first floor, overlooking a street called the rue Royale. Created
to link what is now the Place de la Concorde with the church of
the Madeleine, the rue Royale was then on the western edge of the
city. The house's façade is part of a comprehensive scheme for the street that Ange-Jacques Gabriel designed in 1759. In 1781 Louis Le Tellier acquired the land for numbers 9, 11, and 13. Each of the properties he built was composed of two lodgings, one on the street and another behind on a courtyard.

All three Le Tellier houses had similar plans and decorative
details executed by the same craftsmen, including Louis Fixon the
Younger, who provided the decorative wood panels and the plaster
reliefs over the doors and mirrors.

In the Museum, the salon preserves its original, slightly asymmetrical proportions. The mantlepiece and the floor are not original to the room but are appropriate in date and style. The ceiling rosette is a recent cast of one in the salon of the Le Tellier house at 11, rue Royale.

Certain decorative elements, like the crowns and the archer's
bows, are traditional in French ornamental design. Other
motifs—the nereids supporting an urn and the women playing
flutes—are derived from ancient art and reflect the fashionable
Neoclassical taste. With its harmonious proportions and fine
carving, the room is comparable to some of the simpler interiors
in royal residences such as the Petit Trianon at Versailles.

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